APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Minutes of the Board meeting held June 11, 2017 were
approved unanimously by the Board upon the motion of Bob Saint, seconded by
Bambi Statz.

TREASURERS REPORT – Bob Saint. Starting Balance (1/31/17): $5349.21. Current
Balance: $5397.33. We contributed $ 827.30 to the Forest Service for the
Grant to them. A record 804 parking passes were sold at Monarch with a 50-cent
profit from each pass. 32 passes which were not sold will be carried over to
next year. Junco might owe Doug Smith some money for the passes that he bought.

MEMBERSHIP REPORT – Bob Saint. The current GCWG membership is 94 households and
54 individuals Beth Collins will call the 10 new single/household members to
welcome them, answer questions and invite them to the Fall Annual meeting. Bob
will bring his list of members to the Fall Meeting and two of the Board members
will check people in and have them verify the member's information.

VOLUNTEER HOURS – Toni Wujek. The Forest Service relies on volunteer hours in
obtaining grants and resources. The non-reporting of volunteer hours is still a
problem. It is felt that there are many hours that members have hiked but not
reported their hours as a trail ambassador. To encourage members to report
hours those members with the most cabin hours and those members with the most
volunteer hours will be recognized at the Fall Meeting.

GCWG VISION FOR FUTURE next 2/5/10 years – Jack Reichert. There has been a
shift from GCWG members actively doing trail work to only a few, or no members
showing up for trail work. The Forest Service can't rely on GCWG to support
their trail maintenance projects. The Board discussed doing all our trail
maintenance through Headwaters Trail Alliance. HTA's emphasis, however, is not
as much on the wilderness projects. The Board discussed changing its emphasis
from Wilderness to non-Wilderness. The Board favored staying with our
commitment to the Wilderness. Erica from HTA does Wilderness work. A member of
the Board will contact her and try to get a list of projects in April before
the Spring meeting. Jack will discuss problem about the lack of commitment to
trail projects and poll the members to see how many are willing to commit to
those activities. Also, it has become difficult to get enough people to host
Monarch and Junco cabins. Last year only half of the members did cabin
hosting. The Board discussed how to get more members to do the required
hosting. At the end of the discussion, Jack distributed a hand out with
considerations for the Board to ponder and get back to him with their visions
for GCWG.

CLOTHING INVENTORY – Janet Harrington, Sue Perkins. We still have old inventory
of shirts etc. Beth Collins will bring the inventory to the Fall meeting. We
will try to sell some there. In the announcement for the Fall meeting, there
will be a suggestion for all member to wear their logo clothing. Sue and Bambi
will look into purchasing new clothing articles.

SMART SIZING PROJECT- Bob Saint. John Morrisey signed the decision on this
project. The entire Strawberry Creek Trail will allow bicycle uses. The
Proposed Rogers Pass Loop Trail is deferred to allow Colorado State Wildlife to
analyze the impact of the proposed trail on the elk migration corridor.
Meanwhile, the trail will be excluded from winter maintenance, grooming and
snow mobiles and the trail will be completely closed from May1 to June 20th.
Bicycle use is limited to designated roads and trails on Forest Service land.
Some trails are designated for non- bikes such as the Hi Lo trail north of
Junco. and no bikes will be allowed on the continental divide trail on the
divide.

The board discussed one of the latest assaults on the Wilderness which was a
bill sponsored by both Utah senators to allow mountain bikes, e-bikes etc. in
the Wilderness if approved by local land managers. Again, the Board agreed on
the need to protect the Wilderness.

CABIN HOSTING- Dick Sprague. It has been difficult to fill in all the days
that our Group agreed to cover. Also, on many days, it would be a good idea to
have 3 or 4 volunteers at Monarch Lake. A list of volunteers who could be
available to substitute would also be helpful. Finally there is a problem with
possibility of not giving accurate information on the Wilderness regulations.
Andy Vorek said he would train our volunteers on Wilderness regulations. It
was moved by Bob Saint and seconded by Dick Sprague, and passed unanimously by
the Board to have Andy Vorek conduct trainings on Wilderness regulations. All
volunteers who host the cabins will be required to have Wilderness training.
The Board is considering having one such a training at the Spring meeting
because many members would be there.

TRAIL HEAD HOSTING. This past summer only 2 of the 6 days for trail hosting
were filled. It was decided to discontinue hosting at certain trail heads in
favor of Cabin hosting, light trail maintenance, and trail ambassador work.

SUMMER HIKES. It was decided to change all the orientation hikes to trail
maintenance hikes and do light trail maintenance on the trails, document the
trail condition, including problem areas and the information to the Forest
Service.

STATUS OF GRANTS. John Hughes is working with Andy Vorek to write grants and
then will send out a letter to the Board. Bob Saint said that GCWG may apply
for local grants from Grand County Open Lands, Rivers and Trails.

KIOSK STAINING. Paisley reported that she stained 7 kiosks for the Forest
Service

YMCA ROWLEY ROOM. The YMCA may start charging for use of its facilities. GCWG
President will try to get a room there for the White deer party. It seems that
If we can be flexible with dates, there may be no charge.

DATE OF SEPTEMBER BOARD MEETING. It was decided to have the September Board
meeting for 2018 later in September so that more Board members can attend.

NATIONAL PUBLIC LANDS DAY. Diana Lyn Rau has requested people to help set up on
Friday. GCWG will sent out a request for help.

The next Board Meeting is scheduled for Sunday, January 4th. Host to be
determined.

At 8:30 Bambi made a motion to adjourn, seconded by Dick Sprague and passed
unanimously by the Board